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Hello. This is the blog created for Islay High School's expedition to Malawi in 2007. Here we will be posting our thoughts and feelings when we can while we are in Malawi and after we return we will upload all the photos that we can. Each of the pupils on the expidition will probably be posting their own more perosnal impressions along with the general group posts that are made.

I'll try my best to answer the questions people have asked when commenting on the previous post. Fisrt of all why Malawi? Well firstly Malawi has very close ties with Scotland and it is also not considered a tourist destination. Secondly as far as I know there will not be any kids from Malawi coming to Islay, at least, not as a direct response to this trip. To answer the final question, yes part of our expedition will involve humanitarian work though that will only be a single stage in the whole thing. For the work we will be going to Mthumthana School as well as the St Andrews Clinic. While we are at these locations we will do our best to help out in any way possible.

We have just arrived in Amerstdam airport. We're currently just hanging around, doing a bit of shopping and getting something to eat while we wait for our next flight to take us to Nairobi. The flight from Glasgow was smoothe enough though there were a few problems at the check-in with the desks opening at unexpected times and trying to figure out how you check in 14 people who are all going to multiple destinations simulataneously but it all worked out fine in the end.

We got up at seven this morning in our tents and the sun was already up and beating down on us. After eating breakfast and having showers half the group left to buy us some food, they're still gone... Today we're going to Mthumthana School to start our project though that can wait until after we take advatage of the volley ball net.

The camp we're staying at is called Mabuya Camp and the website for it can be found at so you can all have a look at where we're staying and be jealous of how great it is here :P

We'll upload some photos as soon as we can figure out how to make the computer pick up the camera. Until then you'll just have to wait.